A Good Wine
 

In your opinions, what's the best wine to cook with?

Right now, I'm too cheap to cook with very expensive wine, so I just use the boxed crap. But if there's an infinately better wine to cook with, I'm more than willing to switch.

The rule I always follow is that if I wouldn't drink it I wouldn't cook with it...

But that said, there are some pretty good inexpensive wines out there. For whites, like I'd use in Scampi or other light dishes.

In my kitchen right now, I've got a Semillon from New Zealand that I paid about a little less than six dollars for, and it's quite good. First glass in the bottle always goes to the chef.

For heavier dishes, or tomato sauces I'd use a Malbec or a Pinot Noir from South America - good wines that are nice and inexpensive.

Agree, if you would not drink it don't cook with it. That being said, there is a bit of negative stigmatism towards box wine, I am not saying it is the best stuff ever, but it is far from the worst. Not sure where you are from but there is an over supply of grapes in Napa for the last couple of years, so you can get a quality wine for pretty cheap.

Unfortunately this thread reminds me of the time my girlfriend made a white sauce pasta but mixed up the measurements on the flour...needless to say it tasted like winey-flour paste =p